This famous and popular song is a windlass and capstan shanty collected by Sir Richard Runciman Terry.
This Devonshire folk song was collected by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Widecombe-in-the-Moor is a picturesque village in a high fold of Dartmoor. Widecombe Fair is held on the second Tuesday in...
This fishing song comes from the Norfolk coastal village of Happisburgh (pronounced as in verse 1), which has a lighthouse.
Little is known about this song, but Aiken Drum may have been a Scottish gnome or brownie who would only accept payment in food and drink for his work.
This is probably not a genuine Scottish song, but one of the London imitations so popular around 1700.